The group met last night to decide our Boisique blend. As always, it was an interesting blending event. We ended up liking a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Malbec the best, with the Merlot being a 50/50 blend of the ID Merlot and WA Merlot.
The ID Merlot added some surprising flavors of candied raspberries which was too strong by itself, but was a nice addition when blended in with the WA Merlot.
Ray thought the flavor could be dialed down a little bit more (ie: more WA Merlot than ID), and we tried reducing it by 50%, which was too much.
Looking at the gallons of merlot in the cellar, we have an 18G of ID merlot, plus 1+G in carboys and topping. So we have an easy option to try a slightly higher blend of WA Merlot, or we can hold the additional 11G of WA Merlot in Carboys for future blending.
Here is the blend with 50/50 ID/WA Merlot
45G of Boisique
19G of ID Merlot 25%
19G of WA Merlot
6.75G of Malbec 15%
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